21 Feb 2017

Vacation Stories No-One Wants To Hear

From Afternoons, 1:28 pm on 21 February 2017

You may want to think twice the next time you're tempted to show somebody your travel photos. New research from Harvard University shows the less your friends know about the place you visited, the less they're interested in hearing about it. It turns out people most enjoy hearing stories about things they're already familiar with. Gus Cooney is a social psychologist at Harvard University.

New research shows the less your friends know about the place you visited, the less they're interested in hearing about it.

New research shows the less your friends know about the place you visited, the less they're interested in hearing about it. Photo: Supplied